In 2010, Clinton asked Arturo Valenzuela, then assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs, how “to rein in Chavez.” Valenzuela responded that, “We need to carefully consider the consequences of publicly confronting him but ought to look at opportunities for others in the region to help.”

His answer was in line with the U.S. embassy strategy in 2006, also revealed in WikiLeaks intelligence cables: “Creative U.S. outreach to Chavez' regional partners will drive a wedge between him and them,” said the confidential cable from the embassy. “By refusing to take each of Chavez's outbursts seriously, we frustrate him even more, paving the way for additional Bolivarian miscalculations. We also allow room for other international actors to respond.”

It divides up one's political outlet into two major axes-- Personal freedom and economic freedom. It's a recruitment tool fo the libertarian party, designed to prove the existence, and continued viability of a community of people who would agree with the sentiment

"How dare the government send jack-booted thugs to regulate how I choose to fertilize my opium poppies!"

Intellectually, the Nolan Test appeals to the sort of person who wonders "Is this all there is? Is there no room for the pro-life liberal, or the pro-choice conservative? Remember when we could politely disagree on the gold vs silver standard, or on the morality of keeping slaves; yet still remain within the same political party?" And yet, the politics of the average voter seems rather unidimensional.

But what if we incorporated a new element--- the foreign government! The government of Syldavia doesn't really care all that much about whether Borduria is controlled by the "left" or the "right". What it cares about, mostly, is whether

and yet, most Bodurians would not choose to reimagine their entire political universe around that fringe issue.

The United States has certain interests in Venezuela. From the perspective of some of those interests, one can confidently declare that "Chavez and Maduro are both equally horrible." From the perspective of other interests, one can argue that Chavez is (or was) a threat in some ways, and Maduro was a threat in other ways. From the perspective of the United States, there exists some happy medium, which, unfortunately has no political following, at this point.

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

IClinton shifted the attention to Venezuela: “Ok—but have they ever condemned Venezuela for denying press freedom?” she wrote to Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan.

He responded “I highly doubt it. And that is just the tip of the iceberg,” to which Clinton wrote, “Ah, the proverbial iceberg.”

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What a monster! She actually had the nerve to ask a State Department official about press freedom in another country. And to follow it up, she recklessly and irresponsibly repeated a somewhat timeworn cliche about icebergs.

Dude, you know a criminal mastermind/007 secret agent licensed to kill/femme fatale like Hillary would escape in no time and end up walking out of the place wearing the skin of some poor unsuspecting guard.

His Hillary wound saturates his bandages once a week and leaks into the forums.

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Yes. She's so evil that now she has cast a spell on poor innocent Donnie to force him to say things he doesn't want to say.
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Wikileaks emails reveal that when Trump does something bad it's actually Hillary doing it.

Nicolás Maduro Guerra, the son of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, threatened to "take the White House" with guns if President Donald Trump followed through with a military intervention in the country, a possibility he said he would not rule out on Friday.

"If the U.S. soils the homeland, the rifles would come to New York and take the White House," Maduro Guerra said according to reports from Venezuelan media.

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Interesting choice of words. It's almost as if he's never worked on a farm before.

Interesting choice of words. It's almost as if he's never worked on a farm before.

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Uh, I strongly suspect it was either a poor translation or simply one of the oddities of the English language that led to that.

Nicolás Maduro Guerra probably used the Spanish word Ensuciar which translates, as a verb, meaning to "soil or dirty, to deface or defile" something. The Spanish word for the noun form of soil, as in earth or top soil, is completely different: tierra. A "dirt road" is camino de tierra.

Meh. I'd rather we avoid unnecessary meddling in foreign countries, but if we do, I'd rather have Hillary do it. All this story does is make her look canny -- the total opposite of Mr. Loose Cannon, who just might get South Korea, Guam or Los Angeles nuked.

Meh. I'd rather we avoid unnecessary meddling in foreign countries, but if we do, I'd rather have Hillary do it. All this story does is make her look canny -- the total opposite of Mr. Loose Cannon, who just might get South Korea, Guam or Los Angeles nuked.

Within hours, the news of the launch was trumpeted by the US mainstream press: North Korea had flown an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a missile that could carry nuclear warheads to Anchorage, Alaska, and to the continental United States as well!

But the Western press apparently did not know one crucial fact: The rocket carried a reduced payload and, therefore, was able to reach a much higher altitude than would have been possible if it had instead carried the weight associated with the type of first-generation atomic bomb North Korea might possess. Experts quoted by the press apparently assumed that the rocket had carried a payload large enough to simulate the weight of such an atomic bomb, in the process incorrectly assigning a near-ICBM status to a rocket that was in reality far less capable.

Uh, I strongly suspect it was either a poor translation or simply one of the oddities of the English language that led to that.

Nicolás Maduro Guerra probably used the Spanish word Ensuciar which translates, as a verb, meaning to "soil or dirty, to deface or defile" something. The Spanish word for the noun form of soil, as in earth or top soil, is completely different: tierra. A "dirt road" is camino de tierra.

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I suppose I've spent too much time spent worrying about the neonazis in Charlottesville ("Blut und Boden").

The actual quote, which I'll leave for the Spanish speakers to parse, was:

Which I would translate as "desecrate the sacred South American soil". The verb being "profanar" - meaning desecrate or defile; and "suelo" being used as the noun for soil. I suspect Maduro Guerra used the word "suelo" more for its alliterative effects, rather than strict dictionary definitions.

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